Proposing a machine-learning based method to predict stillbirth before and during delivery and ranking the features: nationwide retrospective cross-sectional study.

Journal: BMC pregnancy and childbirth
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Stillbirth is defined as fetal loss in pregnancy beyond 28 weeks by WHO. In this study, a machine-learning based method is proposed to predict stillbirth from livebirth and discriminate stillbirth before and during delivery and rank the features.

Authors

  • Toktam Khatibi
    Faculty of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 1411713116, Iran. Electronic address: toktam.khatibi@modares.ac.ir.
  • Elham Hanifi
    School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, 14117-13114, Iran.
  • Mohammad Mehdi Sepehri
    Faculty of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 1411713114, Iran. Electronic address: mehdi.sepehri@modares.ac.ir.
  • Leila Allahqoli
    Endometriosis Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran.